Editor's Desk: Getting from $1.25M to $4.3M at LSU ...

2:37 PM,
Jan. 26, 2013

Written by

PAUL V. CARTY
pcarty@thetowntalk.com

ALEXANDRIA, La. -- There's no doubt in this office that Les Miles, the mighty head football coach at Louisiana State University, will get a big bump in pay when the LSU Board of Supervisors takes up the matter Feb. 1.

The proposal on the table, recommended by Joe Alleva, head of all athletics at the university in Baton Rouge, argues for $4.3 million a year. Well, the coach's record does the arguing. The proposal simply clarifies what will be required to keep Miles on campus. His current annual salary -- $3.751 million -- won't.